\monster{The Mi Go: The Larvae of Echidna}
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\quot{``There can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.''}

\desc{``Tiamat begat Echidna by the Indus.'' That is the beginning of the story that the Mi Go tell of their existence. And it is there that the story becomes confused, because the Mi Go \emph{do not know what they are}. This isn't some sort of regular existential angst caused by awakening to their supernatural nature, but a genuine question of philosophy and science. Each Mi Go is a telepathic symbiosis of human and insect, and it is entirely reasonable to question which (if either) is the actual person. Even the eldest and wisest of the Mi Go do not have incontrovertible evidence to determine whether they are a human that has insects growing within their body that they can control, or a colony of insects that lives within a man sized puppet host. Perhaps the truth is somewhere in between.}

\desc{A Mi Go experiences their first years of life from the perspective of being a human child. A human child who sometimes feels painful gnawing sensations within their body as they drift to sleep and as they wake up in the morning -- as if they were being devoured from within by maggots. Which in truth, they are. If you were to drill a hole in one of these children, you would find larval insects in writhing clusters throughout their body. It is usually around their human puberty that the insects themselves mature to flying forms and it is a ghastly, painful, and terrifying spectacle when the insects burrow their way out of the awakening Mi Go's body and take to the sky.}

\desc{It is at this point that the Mi Go's powers truly become apparent, because during the metamorphosis, the young Mi Go feels not only her own flesh become torn asunder by uncounted scores of tiny mandibles, but also simultaneously sees through the eyes of each of the hive's constituent members. From that moment on, ``they'' are able to see through the eyes of the bugs that grow within the human body \emph{and} from the eyes of the human body. They do not have a ``feeling'' of having their thoughts or point of view necessarily within their head, and many of them are convinced that they are solely the hive and have murdered and stolen the memories of the child that they walk around wearing the skin of. Getting insecticides onto a Mi Go has roughly the effects of mace -- it's \emph{incredibly} painful and distracting. The poisoning of the bugs inside their flesh \emph{feels} like the entirety of their body is on fire.}

\noindent \desc{A Mi Go has an Infernal power source and a Lunar power schedule.}

\desc{\begin{list}{}{\itemspace}
    \item \ability{Mi Go Starting Disciplines}
    \item
    \item - Core Discipline: Swarm Song -
\end{list}
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    \item Small Witness (Basic Swarm Song)
    \item Body Colony (Basic Swarm Song)
\end{list}

\begin{list}{}{\itemspace}
    \item
    \item - Basic Disciplines -
\end{list}
\listone
    \item Abyss of the Body (Basic Descent of Entropy)
    \item Patience of the Mountains (Basic Fortitude)
    \item Awe (Basic Presence)
    \item Supernatural Senses (Basic Auspex)
\end{list}

\begin{list}{}{\itemspace}
    \item
    \item - Advanced Disciplines -
\end{list}
\listone
    \item Telepathy (Advanced Auspex)
    \item Magnify the Swarm (Advanced Swarm Song)
\end{list}}

\inspiration{Vampire Hunter D, Wrath of Khan, Starship Troopers, Whisperer in Darkness}